Allen Ginsberg most often quoted two songs when talking about Dylan and poetry. One was Gates of Eden--'the motorcycle black madonna two wheeled gypsy queen" and the other was A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall but from that song he'd usually just cite the opening "O where have you been my blue eyed son/where have you been my darling young one" as an example of Dylan's updating of ballad material, in this instance Lord Randall. OF course, Gates of Eden is the Dylan song most like Ginsberg's own poems (and not coincidentally most like William Blake as well) so it makes sense Allen would like it. In terms of its poetic dynamics, Gates of Eden is probably Dylan's strongest single song with dozens of superbly inspired lines.

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